With the rise of mobile computing in the form of tablets and smart-phones, people have come to question the ability of Microsoft to compete. The major products of Microsoft have been Office and Windows. Google Apps is gaining ground in popularity (fast and because it is a great set of services) mostly to the detriment [...]
Around the end of each year there are a tonne of articles and Posts about the top 5 or ten of the year. This isn’t one of those Posts however I thought I’d share a few statistics from the ‘Online world’ that have caught my eye recently: Massive WordPress Popularity WordPress use is growing at a remarkable [...]
Wikileaks information was leaked by a person. bin Laden was located through a courier. No matter the encryption used for data it is only as strong as the weakest link.
The two major Internet related stories that are widespread at present are the Stuxnet virus/trojan/malware and Wikileaks. The story of Stuxnet is absolutely remarkable and it (the trojan) is quite unlike anything we have seen before; its sophistication and capabilities are truly ground-breaking. As for Wikileaks, there is little new that I can add as [...]
Ericsson has announced that there are 5 billion mobile/cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Certainly a huge number however there was another bit of interesting information provided by Ericsson that illustrates how we are still in the infancy of mobile communications: I was interested to see the following statement from Ericsson: ‘December of last year [2009], another [...]
